DEEP MONITORING WELLS ORDERED AT VARNICOLOR TWENTY YEARS LATER

This news was given to us at a CPAC meeting back in March 2010. These are of course the same wells first ordered in the original Control Order laid on Varnicolor Chemical in 1990. These deep wells then mysteriously disappeared when Philip Environmental took over the site later on. This most recent reincarnation was written about in the March 17, 2010 Elmira Independent. This is one more item that we should be receiving an update from the M.O.E. on at the next CPAC meeting June 30/11 at 6 pm.. The possible significance is that the Varnicolor cleanup was strictly a shallow one. There was some evidence of deeper contamination based upon a couple of deeper boreholes (including NDMA). The question for the site now owned by 3/8 Inc (Elmira Pump) is how many wells and how deep and exactly where will they be located.

Similarily I've asked for shallow boreholes and monitoring wells between Borg Textile and Sanyo Canada. This will aid us in determining if either of these sites are responsible for the historically high levels of NDMA in well CH38 at the corner of Industrial Dr. and Oriole Parkway. This was included in my proposed Agenda for the first CPAC meeting this year, which I sent to Woolwich township.